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We Get Letters
Because of Donald Trump, it has become important for concerned Americans to “Know your Russian Mobsters.” Because, who knows, they may be in charge. Protected in Moscow from being called to account, Pavel ‘Red Eye” Vrublevsky, Russia’s top hacker, was dripping with sarcasm when he got in touch about the new video “Know Your Russian Mobsters” posted…
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Trump, Khashoggi, & Germany’s Criminal Deutsche Bank
It is public knowledge that two well-known customers of Deutsche Bank have deals considered sensitive to scrutiny. One is Donald Trump. The other is—or was— Adnan Khashoggi. The death of Saudi arms dealer and CIA fixer Adnan Khashoggi in London two weeks ago reminds the world again about Adnan Khashoggi’s rich history with fellow Palm…
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Meet the Russian Hackers Behind Russia-Gate
A Russia-Gate bombshell per day. Watergate burglars Gordon Liddy & E. Howard Hunt were already famous by now. So why aren’t the Russian hackers?
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‘Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’
How can Donald Trump “drain the swamp” in Washington when some of its slimiest denizens work for his own campaign?
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Stock Fraud, Drug Trafficking, & the ‘Alt-Right’
When Donald Trump’s campaign manager Steve Bannon was recently exposed for using a vacant house in Miami as his legal residence, he hastily changed his legal address to a beach house in Sarasota, Florida owned by a writer at his Breitbart.com website. His hurried move— made more urgent by Trump’s adoption of ‘voter fraud’ as one of his signature issues— has…
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True Detective II: “The Vaughn Addendum”
In 2003, Directors Performance Fund, a hedge fund controlled and run by Sharon Vaughn, mother of actor Vince Vaughn, capitalized a “bank” specializing in providing financing to drug traffickers and snake oil salesmen peddling goat’s blood. The deal received attention only after Vaughn’s hedge fund went fully rogue two years later, in a much larger…
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True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom
Actor Vince Vaughn, in the news for his starring role in HBO’s True Detective and recent controversial statements advocating more guns in schools, now has a new source of notoriety guaranteed to keep him in face time: his family. Vaughn’s mother, Sharon Vaughn, a sparkling and vivacious Chicagoland socialite, and his step-father, Stephen Ferrone, a…